You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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One must wait till it comes.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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A dog reflects the family life.
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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